This is Canada's Benghazi. I have a theory that bacon is somehow involved. Probably to cover up the hamburger. Buns may even be involved, nice buns. I hear that somebody might be getting the pickle on the side. Something doesn't look right here. There needs to be an investigation. Who knew what and when? What should I have for breakfast? I'm just asking questions here. Is a bacon burger a "legitimate" breakfast?

They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

At first I was like, it's about Canada, who cares and then I was like, OMG, it affects America what's up with that? I still have no opinion or any contribution to make, just thought I'd mention my thought processes, such as they are.

Nurglitch:They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

Nurglitch:They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

Sounds like Harper is Canada's GWB, at least from where I'm sitting in the U.S. Lots of short-sighted decisions, gutting education, easing environmental protections, etc. Is that a fair statement?

beta_plus:Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

mrshowrules:beta_plus: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

Yet you still have to fire all of your statisticians and meat inspectors because the NDerP insists that lazy Canadians should not have to deal with the consequences of their bad decisions. Nice ad hominem that in no way refutes my argument.

I also love whenever we propose to make our economy more free and regulate our banks properly you NDerPers call us racists, despite Canada being lily white (Sorry - Chinese engineers and Indian computer programmers don't count as diversity- get rid of those and Canada is 95% white).

Pretty close, including hundreds of billions in mortgage guarantees pouring like a fire house from the federal government until very recently. GWB may have been brighter than Canda's three stooges - Harper, Flaherty and Carney, the latter another Goldman Sachs alumnus - in that the US housing boom/bust cycle was a secondary result of blind faith in deregulation. For Canada's "fiscally responsible Conservatives" funneling money into the mortgage chute was central policy and the secret sauce behind our "banking miracle".

With as much as the present Canadian Conservatives are trying to emulate the GOP, I wonder how long it will be before Harper tries to dismantle Medicare and make the Canadian healthcare system look like the US? Although I doubt even HE is that pants on fire on head retarded to do something that harebrained (since I'm sure the people of Canada would come after him and the Conservatives with torches and pitchforks if he tried).

beta_plus:mrshowrules: beta_plus: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

Yet you still have to fire all of your statisticians and meat inspectors because the NDerP insists that lazy Canadians should not have to deal with the consequences of their bad decisions. Nice ad hominem that in no way refutes my argument.

I also love whenever we propose to make our economy more free and regulate our banks properly you NDerPers call us racists, despite Canada being lily white (Sorry - Chinese engineers and Indian computer programmers don't count as diversity- get rid of those and Canada is 95% white).

These are people of your ilk getting rid of the scientists. Mirrors the American GOPs ignoring of any data they find politically inconvenient, and to cut funding to try to silence anything that proves there agenda as false.

Don't Troll Me Bro!:Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

Sounds like Harper is Canada's GWB, at least from where I'm sitting in the U.S. Lots of short-sighted decisions, gutting education, easing environmental protections, etc. Is that a fair statement?

More like Harper is what you would have got with Romney. Pointlessly pandring to a base that will always support him anyway because of the (c) beside his name, and following the dictates of his Corporate Masters.

lj1330:Question: Why are we importing beef from Canada? Don't we have enough of our own?

IANAR(ancher) but my guess is that it has something to do with the US using one third of its corn crop to make ethanol, mandated for use by the EPA. Corn is a major component of cattle feed (all that sugar fattens 'em up faster than a teenager on Big Gulps...well, equally fast, anyway). Raise the price/decrease the supply of corn, you change the economics of raising beef.

For cheaper beef, anyway. The more expensive range-fed stuff, not so much.

That's my guess, but I never did finish that GED in agribusiness, so YMMV

beta_plus:mrshowrules: beta_plus: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

Yet you still have to fire all of your statisticians and meat inspectors because the NDerP insists that lazy Canadians should not have to deal with the consequences of their bad decisions. Nice ad hominem that in no way refutes my argument.

I also love whenever we propose to make our economy more free and regulate our banks properly you NDerPers call us racists, despite Canada being lily white (Sorry - Chinese engineers and Indian computer programmers don't count as diversity- get rid of those and Canada is 95% white).

I don't think I've ever seen so much fail in one post before.

1) "nice ad Hominem", how is me talking about the Canadian economy an ad Hominem attack?2) I'm a Liberal. As in a member of the Liberal Party. I've never voted NDP3) I've never call Americans or Republicans racist4) Canada is 80% white (same as US)5) The Canadian Conservative party is the one laying off Statisticians and inspectors, engineers, scientists, researchers etc...etc...

I'm really not sure what you are on about but Canada and I think all-in-all Canada is doing a pretty good job despite the regressive policies of our current Conservative Government. We have a healthy democracy and will give helmet hair his pink slip when we are tired of him.

beta_plus:mrshowrules: beta_plus: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

Yet you still have to fire all of your statisticians and meat inspectors because the NDerP insists that lazy Canadians should not have to deal with the consequences of their bad decisions. Nice ad hominem that in no way refutes my argument.

I also love whenever we propose to make our economy more free and regulate our banks properly you NDerPers call us racists, despite Canada being lily white (Sorry - Chinese engineers and Indian computer programmers don't count as diversity- get rid of those and Canada is 95% white).

You are a drooling retard.

THAT is an ad hominem.

There is no ad hominem present in the post you quoted. If you're going to wield fallacious reasoning like a cudgel, at least get your fallacies correct.

Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.

AurizenDarkstar:With as much as the present Canadian Conservatives are trying to emulate the GOP, I wonder how long it will be before Harper tries to dismantle Medicare and make the Canadian healthcare system look like the US? Although I doubt even HE is that pants on fire on head retarded to do something that harebrained (since I'm sure the people of Canada would come after him and the Conservatives with torches and pitchforks if he tried).

It's already in the works. The Canada Health Accord expires in 2014, and a year ago the federal government unilaterally handed down a new cost-share formula that puts caps on the feds' share of costs after that. That means that the provinces will have to pay a larger share of the healthcare costs for an aging population, whether that means an increase in taxes, privatization or decreased service/quality. In the end, because it's a complicated issue years in the making, Harper's betting that the people will blame the provincial premiers when things go sideways, and unfortunately I think there's a good chance he's right.

sheep snorter:Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.

change1211:sheep snorter: Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.

beta_plus:mrshowrules: beta_plus: Nurglitch: They were going to fire the inspectors before the recall was a twinkle in the Industry Minister's eye. It was a dumb idea then, and it just makes the Harper Government^tm look even less competent. Mind you, they're also firing statisticians, scientists, and so on. It's going to be years before Canada recovers from their short-sighted policies.

Anyhow, on with distracting people from real problems by discussing Prime Minister Sweater-vest's helmet hair.

If you spent less money on entitlement programs for poor people to have children they can't afford and retirements they refuse to save for you would be able to keep them.

You made your bed NDerPer, now you have to lie in it.

We are forecasting a balanced budget by 2016 and are ranked as having a freer economy than the US despite having free health care, well regulated banks and higher taxes.

Yet you still have to fire all of your statisticians and meat inspectors because the NDerP insists that lazy Canadians should not have to deal with the consequences of their bad decisions. Nice ad hominem that in no way refutes my argument.

I also love whenever we propose to make our economy more free and regulate our banks properly you NDerPers call us racists, despite Canada being lily white (Sorry - Chinese engineers and Indian computer programmers don't count as diversity- get rid of those and Canada is 95% white).

Canada will not allow poor or middlexclsss blacks or Hispanics in. Period.

change1211:sheep snorter: Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.

TFA: Under the "Beyond The Border" deal announced by both countries in December, duplicate inspections will be phased out to improve the flow of meat and poultry across the border. A pilot project moving toward a streamlined inspection regimen began this week.

The problem is that the border inspectors were intended to be redundant, but now they're increasingly necessary because Canada doesn't have enough inspectors. I have a cousin who's an inspector in Alberta and he said that they're stretched so thin that they're to the point that they don't really inspect facilities/products much anymore, they just review the on-site corporate inspectors' paperwork. And he's delaying retirement because he knows he won't be replaced.

But wouldn't that just encourage people to shift it back to the canadian federal government?

Administration of the health system is at the provincial level, so long as the provinces comply with federal standards (so that all Canadians theoretically have equal access etc). I could easily envision the federal government down the road putting a stop to trying to shift the blame back to where it belongs by saying "You want us to pay a bigger share? Fine, we're taking over running things too", which wouldn't go over well at all.

Malcolm_Sex:Canada used to look so promising. We're going to be hurting for a long time after Stephens done with us

Once the taxpayer is forced to cover the inevitable housing correction it'll demolish social services for the better part of a generation, if not longer. Almost as if planned. Worst PM in Canadian history.

machodonkeywrestler:change1211: sheep snorter: Ya Harper(prime minister sweatervest) does not like them scientist people. There is even a censorship department in his government for all scientists that are funded by the government. Whatever you do, don't ask him what is actually killing pacific salmon. He gets quite upset. Cuts into his rich peoples profits.